From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-04-14T20:05:15+09:00
Subject: Re: File::expand_path amok

>>>>> "H" == Han Holl <han.holl@prismant.nl> writes:

H> Strange. This runs fine on my system, both on 1.6.8 and 1.8.0p2.
H> That said, I've looked at the code for File.expand_path, and wondered
H> why it didn't make use of the C-library function 'realpath', when
H> available.

 Well I don't know : perhaps because realpath() don't give the same result
 on different systems. For example, BSD 4.4 always return an absolute path,
 Solaris can return a relative path


Guy Decoux